A battle for compensation is on for 22 HIV-positive women who were sterilised without their consent or were pressured into signing consent forms allowing state doctors to render them unable to have children.
[s]City Press[/s] reports that the women were sterilised between 1996 and 2011 in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, and now want provincial health departments to compensate them for their trauma. Sanja Bornman of the [b]Women’s Legal Centre[/b] (WLC) in Cape Town said some of the women were sterilised as far back as 1996 and some as recently as 2011. The WLC is working with advocacy group [b]Her Rights Initiative[/b] to secure compensation for the women.
[link url=http://www.citypress.co.za/news/south-africas-forced-sterilisation-shame]Full City Press report[/link]